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"Man the Reformer," lecture, Boston (1841-01-25) - Emerson, Ralph Waldo | WIST Quotations
The trail of the serpent reaches into all the lucrative professions and practices of man, Each has its own wrongs. Each finds a tender and very intelligent conscience a disqualification for success. Each requires of the practitioner a certain shutting of the eyes, a certain dapperness and compliance, an acceptance…